Period: 19th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

33201. A winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its inhabitants; made during a residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape. By Arthur de Capell Brooke.

Creator:: Broke, Arthur de Capell, Sir, Bart., 1791–1858
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: xvi, 612 p. front., ill., plates, map. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33202. Graphic delineation. A practical treatise on the art of etching, or manner of copying pictures and drawings by a method at once scientific, tasteful, and amusing: to which are added, instructions, detailing minutely the whole process of representation, from an outline to a finished print, with directions for making and compounding every article used in the process. Illustrated with plates in progress, of landscape, cattle, and figures, from original works of Claude Lorraine, Rembrandt, Berghem ... &c. By J. Hassell.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 23 p. front., 8 plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33203. Lyrics. Supplement.

Creator:: Scourfield, John Henry, Sir, Bart., 1808–1876
Date:: ca. 1859]
Physical Description:: 10 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33204. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn ...

Creator:: Taylor, J. (Josiah)
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: [2] p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33205. The Worcestershire visitation, 1683-4.

Creator:: May, Thomas
Date:: 1858]
Physical Description:: 4 p. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33206. Travels in Nubia; / by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. With maps, &c.

Creator:: Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784–1817
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [6], xcii, 543 p., 4 leaves of plates (some folded): ill., port., maps, diagrs.; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33207. The royal or delicate investigation into the conduct of her royal highness the Princess of Wales, : before Lords Erskine, Spencer, Grenville, and Ellenborough the four special commissioners of inquiry, appointed by His Majesty in the year 1806. Containing the depositions of all the evidences, copies of the various letters, statements, narratives, reports, and minutes of council, &c. &c. / Superintended by the late Right Hon. Spencer Percival, in 1806, and then suppressed.

Creator:: Perceval, Spencer, 1762–1812
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: [4], 230, 96 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33208. A new historical and descriptive view of Derbyshire, : from the remotest period to the present time. / By the Rev. D. P. Davies.

Creator:: Davies, D. P. (David Peter)
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: viii, [2], 717, [15], 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., col. map ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33209. Icones veteris testamenti; illustrations of the Old Testament, engraved on wood, from designs by Hans Holbein.

Creator:: Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 14 p., 90 l. [90] pl. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33210. Songs of Shakespeare / illuminated by H.C. Hoskyns Abrahall.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: [1865]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : col. ill. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33211. [Printer's specimen album of stage-proofs in the printing of a portrait after William Powell Frith].

Creator:: Kell, Thomas
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 47 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33212. An historical account of the Episcopal see, and cathedral church, of Sarum, or Salisbury : comprising biographical notices of the bishops : the history of the establishment, from the earliest period : and a description of the monuments ... / by William Dodsworth.

Creator:: Dodsworth, William, active 1792–1814
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [2], xx, 240 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33213. A map of the theatre of war in Poland.

Date:: 1863,
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 62 x 69 cm., folded to 17 x 11 cm., in case 18 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33214. Baxter's Stranger in Brighton and directory : comprising a brief, yet comprehensive historical and topographical account of the town, and immediate neighbourhood ...

Creator:: Baxter, John, 1781–1858
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 4, [v]-lxxxiii, [3], [75]-159, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33215. Love is enough, or, The freeing of Pharamond : a morality / by William Morris.

Creator:: Morris, William, 1834–1896
Date:: 1897]
Physical Description:: [4], 90, [2] : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33216. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vi p., [53] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33217. Rural sports.

Creator:: Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33218. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33219. Hunter's Eastern Townships scenery, Canada East / by W.S. Hunter, Junior.

Creator:: Hunter, William S., 1823–1894
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: [2], 36 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33220. Select examples of architectural grandeur in Belgium, Germany, and France : a series of twenty-four sketches drawn on the spot / by the late Charles Wild, and etched under his direction by John Le Keux, and other artists.

Creator:: Wild, Charles, 1781–1835
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: 16 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33221. The poetry of sport, selected and ed. by Hedley Peek, with a chapter on Classical allusions to sport by A. Lang, and a special preface to the Badminton library by A. E. T. Watson.

Creator:: Peek, Hedley
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: xxvi, 420 p. front., illus., pl. 12⁰.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33222. A system of theoretical and practical chemistry : in two volumes, with plates / by Fredrick Accum, teacher of practical chemistry, pharmacy, and mineralogy, and chemical operator in the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33223. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Turks : illustrated in sixty coloured engravings with descriptions.

Creator:: Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: v, [1], [60] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33224. The history and antiquities of Horsham / by the author of Juvenile researches.

Creator:: Dudley, Howard, 1820–1864
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 73, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33225. Neilondé : an Egyptian scrap-book / by GHB.

Creator:: Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
Date:: [1860]
Physical Description:: [1], 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33226. The scenery, antiquities, and biography, of South Wales : from materials collected during two excursions in the year 1803 / by Benj. Heath Malkin ; embellished with views, drawn on the spot and engraved by Laporte, and a map of the country.

Creator:: Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 1769–1842
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: vii, 634 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33227. Map of the London & Birmingham Railway with the country in its vicinity / from the Ordnance Survey and engraved for Mogg's hand book for railway travellers.

Creator:: Mogg, Edward
Date:: Sepr. 17th. 1838
Physical Description:: 1 map : mounted on cloth ; 26 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33228. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1849-1850
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33229. Chrysal, or, The adventures of a Guinea : wherein are exhibited views of several striking scenes ; with interesting anecdotes of the most noted persons in every rank of life, through whose hands it has passed / by An Adept ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Johnstone, Charles, 1719?-1800?
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33230. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

Creator:: Francia, François-Thomas-Louis, 1772–1839
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2] p., [59] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33231. The crescent and the cross, or, Romance and realities of eastern travel / by Eliot Warburton.

Creator:: Warburton, Eliot, 1810–1852
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33232. Picturesque geography.

Creator:: Green, James, 1771–1834
Date:: [1817?]
Physical Description:: 5 sheets : maps ; each sheet 50 x 62 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33233. An account of the painted chamber in the royal palace at Westminster / by John Gage Rokewode, esq. Dir. S.A.

Creator:: Gage, John, 1786–1842
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: iv, 37, [1] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33234. The comic astronomy, or, Moonshine for sunstruck people [graphic] / by J.B. Rowbotham.

Creator:: Rowbotham, J. B
Date:: [1850]
Physical Description:: 12 pictures on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 170 cm, accordion folded to 15 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33235. Sair sair was my heart : to which are added The hero's orphant girls : The lass o'Ballochmyle : Allister M'Allister : The Highland plaid.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33236. Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.

Creator:: Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: [4], 117 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plan ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33237. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

Creator:: Tønsberg, Chr. (Christian), 1813–1897
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 72 unnumbered pages plates (some color) 26 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33238. Twelve lithographic views.

Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33239. The civil architecture of Vitruvius : comprising those books of the author which relate to the public and private edifices of the ancients / translated by William Wilkins, M.A. F.A.S., late fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; author of the 'Antiquities of Magna Graecia" ; illustrated by numerous engravings ; with an introduction, containing an historical view of the rise and progress of architecture amongst the Greeks.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1812 [i.e. 1812-1817]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33240. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 18, 16, 8, 14, [2] p., 16, 16, 16, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33241. The life of Sir John Falstaff / illustrated by George Cruikshank ; with a biography of the knight from authentic sources, by Robert B. Brough.

Creator:: Brough, Robert B. (Robert Barnabas), 1828–1860
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 2, [xi]-xx, 196 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

33242. Four lithographic views of scenery at and near Ilfracombe / drawn from nature and on stone by G.Wilkins.

Creator:: Wilkins, G.
Date:: [1830?]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33243. The aeropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by the use of kites, or buoyant sails.

Creator:: Pocock, George
Date:: 1827]
Physical Description:: [2], 51, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33244. Descriptive catalogue of the Vernon Gallery : a collection of one hundred and sixty paintings by British artists : presented to the British nation by Robert Vernon.

Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: 20 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33245. Memoir of the life and character of the Right. Hon. Edmund Burke : with specimens of his poetry and letters ... / by James Prior.

Creator:: Prior, James, Sir, 1790?-1869
Date:: 1839
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33246. A residence in the West Indies and America : with a narrative of the expedition to the Island of Walcheren / by Thomas Staunton St. Clair, Lieut.-Colonel, unattached ; in two volumes.

Creator:: St. Clair, Thomas Staunton
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33247. The yellow book : an illustrated quarterly.

Date:: [1894-1897]
Physical Description:: 13 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33248. Celebrated packs of foxhounds. Vol. I.

Creator:: Elliott & Fry
Date:: [1898]
Physical Description:: 20 photographic prints : platinum prints ; 10.5 x 14.3 cm, in album 21.9 x 30.0 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33249. Draughts.

Date:: late 19th century
Physical Description:: 1 drawing : watercolor ; 17 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell

33250. [Collection of 11 engravings and 5 original drawings].

Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plate : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33251. Illustrations of the poems of Cowper : from designs by Craig.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

33252. Poetical sketches of Scarborough: illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs, made upon the spot by J. Green, and etched by T. Rowlandson.

Creator:: Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775–1847
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 4 p.., xv, 215 p. 21 col. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33253. Collection of lace samples, patterns, and photographs.

Date:: ca. 1896-1906
Physical Description:: .42 linear feet
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33254. Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon.

Creator:: Denon, Vivant, 1747–1825
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 3 pts. in 1 ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33255. Outlines in lithography : from a small collection of pictures : for private circulation.

Creator:: Turner, Dawson, 1775–1858
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: 94 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33256. Hints on architecture.

Creator:: Sayers, F. (Frank), 1763–1817
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: p. 59-84 : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33257. A sketch, illustrative of the minster and antiquities of the city of Lincoln.

Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 108 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33258. Diary kept by Annie M. Livingston during her travels through the Middle East.

Creator:: Livingston, Annie M
Date:: 1881-1882
Physical Description:: 1 volume (77 pages) ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33259. Progress of female dissipation / engraved by A. Cardon, from the original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.

Creator:: Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
Date:: Apr. 10, 1800
Physical Description:: [1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33260. Annie Laurie : the favorite Scotch ballad / newly arranged with an accompaniment for the pianoforte by Edward J. Loder.

Creator:: Scott, John, Lady, 1810–1900
Date:: [ca. 1895]
Physical Description:: 1 score ([4] p.) ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

33261. Ora pro nobis / easy pianoforte solo on the famous song by M. Piccolomini ; arranged by Stuart Scott.

Creator:: Piccolomini, M. (Marietta), 1834–1899
Date:: [189-?]
Physical Description:: 1 score (3 p.) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

33262. Killarney / the music by M.W. Balfe ; sung by Miss Anna Whitty.

Creator:: Balfe, M. W. (Michael William), 1808–1870
Date:: [189-?]
Physical Description:: 1 score ([4] p.) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

33263. Sketchbook of views in England.

Creator:: J. J
Date:: 1843-1844
Physical Description:: 1 volume (27 drawings) ; 19 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33264. A. de Banke, milliner and dress maker : 59, South Street, Exeter, opposite Palace Gate / Smith sc., Exeter.

Creator:: Banke, A. de
Date:: between and 1840 and 1850?
Physical Description:: 1 trade card ; 49 x 87 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33265. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

Creator:: Edward Petty & William Wood, (Grocers)
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 sheets ; 17 x 21 cm, 13 x 21 cm, and 11 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33266. Stannard & Son's perspective view of Ashantee & the whole of the Gold Coast : shewing Elmina, Accra & Cape Coast Castle, with proposed routes to Coomassie, the railways, roads, etc. etc. : compiled from Captain Glovers survey and all the latest official sources / drawn and lithographed by Alfred Concanen.

Creator:: Concanen, Alfred
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: 1 view : color ; 47 x 69 cm, folded to 20 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33267. The churchyard manual : intended chiefly for rural districts / by W. Hastings Kelke, A.B., Rector of Drayton Beauchamp ; with designs for churchyard memorials kindly furnished by G.G. Scott, Esq., and W. Slater, Esq., architects.

Creator:: Kelke, William Hastings, -1865
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xii, 154, [1] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33268. Rules and regulations for the allotment gardens in the township of Alnmouth : belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland.

Date:: 2nd February, 1853
Physical Description:: 1 leave ([1] page) ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33269. A catalogue of a capital, well chosen collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures : also, a few drawings and prints, framed and glazed, late the property of a gentleman, deceased, brought from his seat, in the county of Bucks. : comprising many fine works of the following esteemed masters, viz. : Raphael, Dominichino, Wouvermans, Waterloo, Tintoretto, Valasquez, Teniers, Mieris, Bassan, Murillo, Backhuysen, Watteau, Caracci, Rubens, Ostade, J. Steen, Guido, Rembrandt, Both, Zuccherelli. : particularly a Village Festival, A. Ostade : a Grand Landscape, H. Caracci : the small study for the renowned picture at the Louvre, by L. Spado : a landscape, Both : The Windmills, Rembrandt : a sea piece, Backhuysen, from the Duc de Praslin's collection : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, February 1st, 1805, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33270. A catalogue of that magnificent and truly valuable collection of pictures, the production of the great artists of the British School, known as the collection of the Shakspeare Gallery : formed under the spirited directions, and with the unbounded expence, by those distinguished promoters of the fine arts, the Messrs. Boydell's : these justly-admired pictures, in which the poetry of our Great Bard has furnished occasion for a proud display of national talent, comprises many of the happiest efforts of such deceased artists as the immortal Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wright of Derby, Hodges, Romney, Hamilton, Wheatley, Kirk, Ramberg, and others, the rarity as well as the excellence of whose works, must insure them a distinguished place in the collection of the connoisseur : among the spirited performances of living genius, are the King Lear, by Mr. West : and various by Barry, Northcote, Opie, Tesham, Fuseli, Hoppner, Smirke, Stothard, Peters, Rigaud, Westall, Boydell, A. Kauffman : and that admirable set of cabinet pictures by Mr. Smirke : basso relievos, by the Hon. Mrs. Damer : and the Grand Alto Relievo, the Apotheosis of Shakspeare, by the late Thomas Banks, Esq. R.A. : many of the above pictures are of the cabinet size, and the remainder will be found worthy objects for the late saloons of the nobility and Gentry, or the Halls of Incorporate Bodies, or for Exhibitions in distant parts of the kingdom : the whole will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Friday, May 17, 1805, and two following days, (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock, by order of the proprietor, without reserve.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33271. A catalogue of that magnificent and truly valuable collection of pictures, the productions of the great artists of the British school, known as the collection of the Shakspeare Gallery, formed under the spirited directions, and with unbounded expence, by those distinguished promoters of the fine arts, the Messrs. Boydell's : these justly-admired pictures, in which the poetry of our great bard has furnished occasion for a proud display of national talent, comprise many of the happiest efforts of such deceased artists as the immortal Sir Joshua Reynolds, Wright of Derby, Hodges, Romney, Hamilton, Wheatley, Kirk, Ramberg, and others, the rarity as well as the excellence of whose works, must insure them a distinguished place in the collection of the connoisseur : among the spirited performances of living genius, are the King Lear, by Mr. West, and various by Barry, Northcote, Opie, Tresham, Fuseli, Hoppner, Smirke, Stothard, Peters, Rigaud, Westall, Boydell, A. Kauffman : and that admirable set of cabinet pictures, the Seven ages by Mr. Smirke : basso relievos, by the Hon. Mrs. Damer : and the grand alto relievo, the Apotheosis of Shakspeare, by the late Thomas Banks, Esq. R.A. : many of the above pictures are of the cabinet size, and the remainder will be found worthy objects for the large saloons of the nobility and gentry, or the halls of incorporate bodies, or for exhibition in distant parts of the Kingdom.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33272. A catalogue of a most valuable and unique collection of ancient stained glass : comprising noble altar pieces, windows for churches, collegiate buildings, & Gothic country residences : also many exquisite cabinet pieces, of the finest colouring and richest enamel, purchased on the continent : besides various grand and fine subjects, which compose this collection, is a magnificent window, 17 feet high, from the Great Church at Rouen, representing the Last Judgment : the composition of the sublimest cast : the figure numerous and elaborately finished, and the colours most richly splendid and varied : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall, London : on Thursday, May 18, and the following day.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: 14 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33273. A catalogue of antique, ancient and Italian works of art in bronze, on view and sale at Mr. Deville's rooms, No. 367, Strand.

Creator:: De Ville, James, 1776–1846
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 30, [2] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33274. A catalogue of a highly interesting and valuable collection of engravings and cabinet pictures, the property of an eminent collector : comprising some of the best productions of the different schools, several of them not mentioned in Bartsch : by Pollajuilo, Marc Antonio, Van Meckenem, &c. : Painters' etchings : a large collection of the works of Nanteuil : numerous portraits, English and foreign, by Hollar, Faithorne, Passe, Earlom, Hogarth, Sherwin, Woollett, Worledge, Bartolozzi, Heath, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Stewart, Wheatley, & Adlard, at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Friday, Feb. 1, 1828, and four following days, (Sunday excepted,) at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Stewart, Wheatley, & Adlard
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 29, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33275. To the affectionate remembrance of Clara Edith Albrecht : who departed this life March 24th, 1861 : aged 6 years and 6 months.

Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 1 card : embossing ; 7 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33276. [Australian invitation card].

Date:: [approximately 1850?]
Physical Description:: 1 card : etching ; 5 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33277. Letter from Edward Fullbrook to an unidentified recipient : manuscript.

Creator:: Fullbrook, Edward, active 1824–1839
Date:: 1836 December 28
Physical Description:: 1 item : illustrations ; 20 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33278. The miller and his men : a melo-drama, in two acts / by I. Pocock, Esq.

Date:: February 1865
Physical Description:: [14] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus

33279. Lewis's Sketches and drawings, of the Alhambra, made during a residence in Granada, in the years 1833-4. Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, R.J. Lane, A.R.A., W. Gauci, & John F. Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, John Frederick, 1804–1876
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 25 col. plates. 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33280. Proposals for the establishment of a public gallery of pictures in London ... by Joseph, Count Truchsess.

Creator:: Truchsess, Joseph
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: 14 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33281. Hints for picturesque improvements in ornamented cottages, and their scenery: including some observations on the labourer and his cottage. In three essays. Illustrated by sketches ... By Edmund Bartell, jun.

Creator:: Bartell, Edmund
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [v]-xvi, 140 p. 6 plates (incl. front.) 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33282. Instructions for the mixture of water-colours, adapted to the various styles of miniature painting; and also to landscape, flower, and fruit painting. To which is added, the elements of painting in water-colours: treated so as to render the whole easy of attainment. By Henry Harrison, professor of painting.

Creator:: Harrison, Henry, artist
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 40 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33283. Mr. & Mrs. John Brown's visit to London to see the Grand Exposition of All Nations. How they were astonished at its wonders, inconvenienced by the crowds, &frightened out of their wits by the foreigners. Designed & etched by T. Onwhyn.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 11 leaves. col. ill. 12 x 246 cm. fold. to 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33284. Catalogue des manuscrits de monseigneur le president de Mesmes. Anno 1650. Ex Bibliotheca Meerman, no. 868. Nunc in Bibliotheca Phillippica. 1827.

Creator:: Avaux, Claude de Mesmes, comte d', 1595–1650
Date:: 1828]
Physical Description:: 6 p. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33285. The rural life of England. By William Howitt ...

Creator:: Howitt, William, 1792–1879
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: xxiv, 615 p. ill. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33286. Cathedral antiquities. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Salisbury ... By John Britton, F. S. A. ...

Creator:: Longman & Co
Date:: [ca. 1813]
Physical Description:: 3 p. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33287. Visitation of Wiltshire 1677. Ex Mss. Phillipps.

Creator:: Bysshe, Edward, Sir, 1615?-1679
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [22] p. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33288. Excursion to Kenilworth : with modern and ancient history of the town : historical account of the castle, full particulars of the gorgeous fête given there by the Earl of Leicester to Queen Elizabeth in the year 1575 : description of the ruins in romance of Kenilworth : and calculated to form a clear guide to the curious visitor : embellished with an elegant engraving of the castle, as it now stands / by W.T. Moncrieff ; author of the Visitors new guide to Leamington Spa, Excursions to Warwick, Stratford, &c. &c.

Creator:: Moncrieff, W. T. (William Thomas), 1794–1857
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [6], 36 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

33289. Descriptive catalogue of the panoramic exhibition of the Manchester and Liverpool rail-road, containing 15,000 square feet of canvass : now exhibiting / Illustrated with twelve lithographic views, taken on the spot, by artists of acknowledged talent.

Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 20 p., [12] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33290. Rebecca and Rowena. A romance upon romance, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. [pseud.]

Creator:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: viii, 102 p. col. front., col. plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33291. A catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen, and others, born, resident in, or connected with the county of Warwick; alphabetically arranged, with names of the painters and engravers, and the size of each plate; to which are added numerous biographical notices, compiled or selected with great assiduity, research, and care.

Creator:: Merridew, John, 1789–1862
Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 ., 83 p. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33292. The poetical works of Samuel T. Coleridge / edited, with a critical memoir, by William Michael Rossetti ; illustrated by Thomas Seccombe.

Creator:: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Date:: [1878]
Physical Description:: xxxii, 424 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33293. Warwick Castle : a poem / embellished with engravings from drawings by J. Roe, Warwick.

Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [4], 47 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33294. Description of the banquet given in honour of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel ... : on his election as lord rector of the University of Glasgow : detailing the proceedings at the election and inauguration, the addresses of various public bodies, and reports of the speeches at the dinner / corrected by Sir Robert Peel and the other speakers ; containing also pictorial illustrations, plans, and sections of the banqueting hall, and the common hall of the university ; with a list of the names of the noblemen and gentlemen who attended the festival.

Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: [6], 144 p., [6] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33295. Elements of English prosody for use in St. George's schools : explanatory of the various terms used in Rock honeycomb / by John Ruskin.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1880
Physical Description:: vii, 62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33296. Studies in Ruskin : some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin / by Edward T. Cook ...

Creator:: Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857–1919
Date:: 1890
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 334 p., [1], 13 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33297. The tablet of memory : showing every event in history from the earliest period to the year 1817 : classed under distinct heads, with their dates : comprehending an epitome of English history, with an exact chronology of painters, eminent men, &c.

Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: iv, 334 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33298. Fine art at the Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887 : critical notices reprinted from the Manchester Guardian / by Walter Armstrong.

Creator:: Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850–1918
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 62 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33299. Kenilworth illustrated, or, The history of the castle, priory and church of Kenilworth : with a description of their present state.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [8], 63, 108 p., [19] leaves of plates : port., plans ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33300. Nouveau traité de la chasse et de la pêche : orné d'un grand nombre de figures / par MM. A. René et C. Liersel.

Creator:: René, Adolphe
Date:: [1865]
Physical Description:: 430 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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33201. A winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its inhabitants; made during a residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape. By Arthur de Capell Brooke.

33203. Lyrics. Supplement.

33204. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn ...

33205. The Worcestershire visitation, 1683-4.

33206. Travels in Nubia; / by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. With maps, &c.

33208. A new historical and descriptive view of Derbyshire, : from the remotest period to the present time. / By the Rev. D. P. Davies.

33209. Icones veteris testamenti; illustrations of the Old Testament, engraved on wood, from designs by Hans Holbein.

33210. Songs of Shakespeare / illuminated by H.C. Hoskyns Abrahall.

33211. [Printer's specimen album of stage-proofs in the printing of a portrait after William Powell Frith].

33212. An historical account of the Episcopal see, and cathedral church, of Sarum, or Salisbury : comprising biographical notices of the bishops : the history of the establishment, from the earliest period : and a description of the monuments ... / by William Dodsworth.

33213. A map of the theatre of war in Poland.

33214. Baxter's Stranger in Brighton and directory : comprising a brief, yet comprehensive historical and topographical account of the town, and immediate neighbourhood ...

33215. Love is enough, or, The freeing of Pharamond : a morality / by William Morris.

33216. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

33217. Rural sports.

33219. Hunter's Eastern Townships scenery, Canada East / by W.S. Hunter, Junior.

33220. Select examples of architectural grandeur in Belgium, Germany, and France : a series of twenty-four sketches drawn on the spot / by the late Charles Wild, and etched under his direction by John Le Keux, and other artists.

33221. The poetry of sport, selected and ed. by Hedley Peek, with a chapter on Classical allusions to sport by A. Lang, and a special preface to the Badminton library by A. E. T. Watson.

33222. A system of theoretical and practical chemistry : in two volumes, with plates / by Fredrick Accum, teacher of practical chemistry, pharmacy, and mineralogy, and chemical operator in the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

33223. Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Turks : illustrated in sixty coloured engravings with descriptions.

33224. The history and antiquities of Horsham / by the author of Juvenile researches.

33225. Neilondé : an Egyptian scrap-book / by GHB.

33226. The scenery, antiquities, and biography, of South Wales : from materials collected during two excursions in the year 1803 / by Benj. Heath Malkin ; embellished with views, drawn on the spot and engraved by Laporte, and a map of the country.

33227. Map of the London & Birmingham Railway with the country in its vicinity / from the Ordnance Survey and engraved for Mogg's hand book for railway travellers.

33228. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

33229. Chrysal, or, The adventures of a Guinea : wherein are exhibited views of several striking scenes ; with interesting anecdotes of the most noted persons in every rank of life, through whose hands it has passed / by An Adept ; in three volumes.

33230. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

33231. The crescent and the cross, or, Romance and realities of eastern travel / by Eliot Warburton.

33232. Picturesque geography.

33233. An account of the painted chamber in the royal palace at Westminster / by John Gage Rokewode, esq. Dir. S.A.

33234. The comic astronomy, or, Moonshine for sunstruck people [graphic] / by J.B. Rowbotham.

33235. Sair sair was my heart : to which are added The hero's orphant girls : The lass o'Ballochmyle : Allister M'Allister : The Highland plaid.

33236. Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.

33237. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

33238. Twelve lithographic views.

33240. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

33241. The life of Sir John Falstaff / illustrated by George Cruikshank ; with a biography of the knight from authentic sources, by Robert B. Brough.

33242. Four lithographic views of scenery at and near Ilfracombe / drawn from nature and on stone by G.Wilkins.

33243. The aeropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by the use of kites, or buoyant sails.

33244. Descriptive catalogue of the Vernon Gallery : a collection of one hundred and sixty paintings by British artists : presented to the British nation by Robert Vernon.

33245. Memoir of the life and character of the Right. Hon. Edmund Burke : with specimens of his poetry and letters ... / by James Prior.

33246. A residence in the West Indies and America : with a narrative of the expedition to the Island of Walcheren / by Thomas Staunton St. Clair, Lieut.-Colonel, unattached ; in two volumes.

33247. The yellow book : an illustrated quarterly.

33248. Celebrated packs of foxhounds. Vol. I.

33249. Draughts.

33250. [Collection of 11 engravings and 5 original drawings].

33251. Illustrations of the poems of Cowper : from designs by Craig.

33252. Poetical sketches of Scarborough: illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs, made upon the spot by J. Green, and etched by T. Rowlandson.

33253. Collection of lace samples, patterns, and photographs.

33254. Description des objets d'arts qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon.

33255. Outlines in lithography : from a small collection of pictures : for private circulation.

33256. Hints on architecture.

33257. A sketch, illustrative of the minster and antiquities of the city of Lincoln.

33258. Diary kept by Annie M. Livingston during her travels through the Middle East.

33259. Progress of female dissipation / engraved by A. Cardon, from the original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.

33260. Annie Laurie : the favorite Scotch ballad / newly arranged with an accompaniment for the pianoforte by Edward J. Loder.

33261. Ora pro nobis / easy pianoforte solo on the famous song by M. Piccolomini ; arranged by Stuart Scott.

33262. Killarney / the music by M.W. Balfe ; sung by Miss Anna Whitty.

33263. Sketchbook of views in England.

33264. A. de Banke, milliner and dress maker : 59, South Street, Exeter, opposite Palace Gate / Smith sc., Exeter.

33265. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

33267. The churchyard manual : intended chiefly for rural districts / by W. Hastings Kelke, A.B., Rector of Drayton Beauchamp ; with designs for churchyard memorials kindly furnished by G.G. Scott, Esq., and W. Slater, Esq., architects.

33268. Rules and regulations for the allotment gardens in the township of Alnmouth : belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland.

33273. A catalogue of antique, ancient and Italian works of art in bronze, on view and sale at Mr. Deville's rooms, No. 367, Strand.

33275. To the affectionate remembrance of Clara Edith Albrecht : who departed this life March 24th, 1861 : aged 6 years and 6 months.

33276. [Australian invitation card].

33277. Letter from Edward Fullbrook to an unidentified recipient : manuscript.

33278. The miller and his men : a melo-drama, in two acts / by I. Pocock, Esq.

33279. Lewis's Sketches and drawings, of the Alhambra, made during a residence in Granada, in the years 1833-4. Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, R.J. Lane, A.R.A., W. Gauci, & John F. Lewis.

33280. Proposals for the establishment of a public gallery of pictures in London ... by Joseph, Count Truchsess.

33281. Hints for picturesque improvements in ornamented cottages, and their scenery: including some observations on the labourer and his cottage. In three essays. Illustrated by sketches ... By Edmund Bartell, jun.

33283. Mr. & Mrs. John Brown's visit to London to see the Grand Exposition of All Nations. How they were astonished at its wonders, inconvenienced by the crowds, &frightened out of their wits by the foreigners. Designed & etched by T. Onwhyn.

33284. Catalogue des manuscrits de monseigneur le president de Mesmes. Anno 1650. Ex Bibliotheca Meerman, no. 868. Nunc in Bibliotheca Phillippica. 1827.

33285. The rural life of England. By William Howitt ...

33286. Cathedral antiquities. The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Salisbury ... By John Britton, F. S. A. ...